So if I took $500,000 cash & immediately put it

[Nash B.]

Because quick pick doesn't have your best interests at heart. So he could also split $0 500,000 ways...there are more than 500K number combo...you know that right?

Really? Unpossible! My feeble little mind can't comprehend anything bigger than 2^18

[Trip McNeely]

2 + 2 = 5

[BERNIE MOSFET]

That would also require you have 500,000 unique number combinations.

Well, yeah. I was thinking best case scenario, if not practically. Good point.

That's the easy part. You also have to take into account all the non-jackpot winnings: 3 numbers, 4 numbers, etc.Why the fuck would you play the same combinations more than once? If you hit the jackpot with 3 tickets, you get to split the jackpot 3 ways, with yourself.

Been awhile since I took probability theory. I'm not in the mood to work that up!

[slow99]

n!/(k!(n-k)!) > DFWM

[Ruffdaddy]

Really? Unpossible! My feeble little mind can't comprehend anything bigger than 2^18

I have no clue what 2caret18 equates to. Leave your l33t mind tricks out of this.

[momo]

I have no clue what 2caret18 equates to. Leave your l33t mind tricks out of this.

= tony can take 2 18" carrots.

[78X]

Chances would be 1 in 1928

[Nash B.]

= tony can take 2 18" carrots.

LOL, asshole

[slow99]

That would also require you have 500,000 unique number combinations.

I like the chances of that happening.

[78X]

Just hit quick pick button 500,000 times

[71chevellejohn]

Didn't some Australians do that a couple years back... Spend enough money to buy one ticket of every possible combination?

[BERNIE MOSFET]

n!/(k!(n-k)!) > DFWM

54!/(6!48!) = 25,827,165, which is the number of unique combinations available when selecting 6 numbers from a lot of 54.

I'm not convinced that randomly selecting 6 numbers 500,000 times will produce a significant number of duplicates. The probability of selecting the same set of numbers twice is the same as winning the lottery.

[slow99]

54!/(6!48!) = 25,827,165, which is the number of unique combinations available when selecting 6 numbers from a lot of 54.

I'm not convinced that randomly selecting 6 numbers 500,000 times will produce a significant number of duplicates. The probability of selecting the same set of numbers twice is the same as winning the lottery.

No shit, why do you think I posted that I like the odds of that happening (having 500,000 unique combinations)?

[Nash B.]

No shit, why do you think I posted that I like the odds of that happening (having 500,000 unique combinations)?

Lucky guess!

[slow99]

Lucky guess!

In before someone says it's a permutation.